Abstract
In the first SUDENE Master Plan (1961-1963), under the coordination of Celso Furtado, the agrarian question constituted an important paradigm for the construction of a development policy for the Northeast region. This work aims to analyze the agrarian policy systematized in the Master Plan Draft document in its following phases: the diagnosis of the social crisis and the effects of the drought, the proposal for agricultural restructuring aimed at food production and the fight against hunger, and the supply policy and colonization to reduce forced population displacement. These elements form the basis of the prognosis of SUDENE's agrarian policy and the proposal for structural transformation to reduce social inequalities, for a new agriculture and a new farmer. The plan forwarded by SUDENE resulted from the intra-elite pact of the SUDENE Deliberative Council, between governors and representatives of ministries, and even representing the “measure of the possible” for the agrarian structure, it met its political collapse.
Keywords:
SUDENE; Master plan; agrarian policy; Celso Furtado